Asteroseismology of 1523 misclassified red giants

We report the discovery of 626 new oscillating red giants in our sample, in addition to 897 oscillators that were previously characterized by Hekker et al. from one quarter of Kepler data. Our sample increases the known number of oscillating low-luminosity red giants by 26 per cent (up to >=1900 stars).

About three quarters of our sample are classified as ascending red giant branch stars, while the remainder are red-clump stars. A novel scheme was applied to determine {Delta}{nu} for 108 stars with {nu}_max_ close to the Nyquist frequency (387{mu}Hz>{nu}_max_>387{mu}Hz). Additionally, we identified 47 stars oscillating in the super-Nyquist frequency regime, up to 387 {mu}Hz, using long-cadence light curves.